Home Office

Smoke Alarms: Hearing Impaired

Mark Pritchard: To ask the Secretary of State for the Home Department, if she will take steps to ensure that local fire authorities install deaf awareness alternative smoke alarms in homes which make use of warning lights rather than sound as a warning system when requested.

Mike Penning: We expect local fire and rescue authorities to determine how to allocate their resources to best protect their communities from the risks from fire. Although each authority delivers a range of community fire safety interventions designed to prevent and reduce the risk from accidental dwelling fires, all also carry out a programme of home fire safety visits. In some cases, these visits, which offered tailored fire safety advice in the home, are focussed specifically on those who may be particularly vulnerable, including older people and those with disabilities. Fire and rescue authorities will, in certain circumstances, offer to provide and install free smoke alarms to households without them. This will include alarms designed specifically for those who may be deaf or have other hearing difficulties. How fire and rescue authorities decide where best to target their home fire safety visits and what fire safety equipment, if any, would reduce most effectively the risk to the household is a local matter based on a local assessment of risk.

Department for Education

Mathematics: GCSE

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils who achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE in 2015 received (a) A*, (b) A, (c) B and (d) C grade in mathematics.

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils who achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE in 2015 received (a) A*, (b) A, (c) B and (d) C grade in English.

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils who achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE in 2015 received (a) A*, (b) A, (c) B and (d) C grade in science.

Ian Austin: To ask the Secretary of State for Education, what proportion of pupils who achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE in 2015 received (a) A*, (b) A, (c) B and (d) C grade in a modern foreign language.

Nick Gibb: The table below provides information as requested for the percentage of pupils that achieved five A* to C grades at GCSE[1] in 2015 who achieved A*, A, B and C grades in specific GCSE subjects[2]. Percentage of pupils who achieved five A*-C grades in GCSE and achieved the stated grade in the listed subjects A*ABCMathematics10.717.527.934.4English Language / Literature[3]6.117.023.712.7Core and additional science[4]1.98.719.014.7Separate science[5]6.89.98.43.3Modern foreign language[6]7.79.713.718.5[1] Based on GCSE examinations only - excludes equivalents.[2] Note that separate figures are provided for the core science and triple award science pathways. Information is not provided for double award science due to low numbers of entries.[3] Figures include only those pupils who entered both English Language and English Literature (and achieved at least a C in one of them) and are based on the highest grade achieved in either subject.[4] Figures include only those pupils who entered and achieved the core science pathway (having entered core and additional science and have achieved an A*-C in both) and are based on the highest grade achieved in either of the component subjects.[5] Figures include only those pupils who entered and achieved the separate science pathway (having entered three of biology, chemistry, physics and computer science and having achieved A*-C in two of them) and are based on the highest grade achieved in any of the component subjects.[6] Based on the highest grade achieved in any modern foreign language GCSE - if pupils achieved two or more languages and achieved different grades then they only appear once in the figures.

Foreign and Commonwealth Office

Kamal Foroughi

Tom Brake: To ask the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, what assessment his Department has made of the conditions in which Kamal Foroughi is being held in Evin Prison, Iran.

Mr Tobias Ellwood: We have not been able to obtain access to Mr Foroughi since his detention in May 2011. The Iranian Government does not recognise dual nationality for Iranian citizens. Our requests for consular access to detainees have been rejected on these grounds. We regularly express our concerns about all of our consular cases at high level with the Iranian Government.Prime Minister David Cameron raised these issues in a letter to President Rouhani on 19 October and again in a telephone call on 19 January. Most recently this was raised by the Secretary of State for Foreign and Commonwealth Affairs, my right hon. Friend the Member for Runnymede and Weybridge (Mr Hammond) during Foreign Minister Zarif’s visit to London on 5 February. I am also keeping a close interest in Mr Foroughi’s case, having recently met with his son in London on 1 December and 14 January.

Department for Business, Innovation and Skills

Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit: Staff

Maria Eagle: To ask the Secretary of State for Business, Innovation and Skills, how many full-time police officers worked in the Police Intellectual Property Crime Unit in (a) 2013-14, (b) 2014-15 and (c) 2015-16.

Mr Edward Vaizey: The current (2015-16) established strength for the unit is;0.5 x Detective Chief Inspector1 x Detective Inspector2 x Detective Sergeant2 x Police Staff Investigator2 x Analyst2 x Researcher1 x Communications officer We do not have historical figures for staff numbers available, but the team has been of the same approximate size since inception.